Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-30
THE RED FLAG.
An Anarchist Orator Tells Who Are the
Foreigners In America and Who
Are the Natives.
An Tmpassioned Fu.ogy of the Flag for
Which Moro Noble Hearts Havo Died
Than any Other.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Cooper Union
was filed to Overlooking last night with
people who symrsthiz= d with the Chicago
anarchists who were hanged. The meet
ing was called by the Trades declarations
and in behalf of the widows and orphans
OF the anarchists recently executed in
Chicago. Il was an anarchist meeting
through and through. There were red
ribbons and feathers on the women, red
neckties and hat bands on the men.
There was red and black flag back of
the stage and portraits of the hanged
anarchists were draped in black. The
police were present IN force, but the
meeting wss not interrupted. Mr..
Shevitch, who was the orator, said in
substance:
SIT Is no time to cheer. It is no time
to weep. 1t is time II Think time to
get ready for action. 1t is q memorial
we are to celebrate tonight, not in honor
OF those who do not want any expression
OF feeling. 1t is to the people of the
country. The judicial murder in Chicago
would have been Impossible even 10 Rus
STA. The men were not hanged for a
crime. They were hanged for what they
had thought, written and spoken. They
did not hang Spies and the ether an
archists alone. They hanged free speech,
free thought. It is supposed the men
were craDks, were foreigners to whom
little attention was psid. II they were
uch why was such an effort put forth 10
suppress them? 1t is MISTAKE to sup
Jse their ideas do not amount to any
thing. A quarter OF century ago John
Brown,
NATIVE AMERICAN,
was lYnched and four years later half of
the nation was marching on with his soul.
Do you want TO know the names of the
+ foreigners in this country? They are Jay
G 'uld, the Vsnderbilts, the Russell Sages
The foreigners are not the anarchists.
The element who hsve nothing in kind
with the people are the capitalist, They
control our politics with their money and
have di-graced our honor and liberty
Their cry of law and order is for their
own protection, for the protection of their
stolen properly. The execution in Chica-
go will forever be handed down as the
worst crima in the history of this people.
Powderiy and Henry George have placed
II emselves in line with the hengman.
The object of the tragedy was to intimi-
d.te the advance workers in the labor
movement. There was no other cause
for the murder.
You have heard it said that the anarch-
lists do not belong to this country. They
do not want to belorg to this country
They do not need to come under its flag.
They have fig of their own, red flag.
What ID the & tg for which more
u
than for any other? What does this red
flag mean? 1t means the blood Of human
lty 1t means to put q stop to the |
shedding Of blood. It means to |
put Stop to the condition of those who |
work but cannot epj ", and those who do |
not work but do erj)Y. Taere is blood |
on that fie-the blood of thousands and |
millions slaughtered for that fig. II is |
dre1ched in the blood Of the victims of |
the militia in Illinois and other states. |
If that flag is dangerous, gentlemen of |
the press, that danger has been created |
by the men who employ vou-your own |
bosses. That talk about law and order |
is only dust that Is thrown in the eyes OF |
the people.
hope 1t is the habit to send spies to |
take down the words of tn speakers on |
these occasions, and that they do not |
alter them. Let US stand together; let
Us be more fiery in our language than |
ever before. Let the blood f the anar-
caists cry out through the world. 1t is
our fsg. We will raise it, We will carry
It through your streets. The time Is not
lar distant when national monument |
will be raised to the men murdered in
Chicago"
Resolutions were passed in which those
present pledged themselves to support
the widows and orphans of the hanged
Chicago anarchists.